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ABA President Mary L. Smith has been named to America250’s Ambassador Circle. America250 is a nonpartisan entity charged with planning and orchestrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Ambassador Circle is a diverse coalition of high-profile leaders who will help represent ...
Continue ReadingElizabeth S. Stong of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York received the 2024 Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law from the American Bar Association. The award is presented to “distinguished lawyers who have demonstrated significant contributions to ...
Continue ReadingThe Official Text of the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts is now available to purchase.
This Restatement seeks to clarify how the courts have applied contract law embodied in the Restatement of the Law Second, Contracts, to transactions that either were not contemplated at the time the ...
Continue ReadingOn June 12, Victoria Shannon Sahani of Boston University School of Law testified before Congress as an expert witness before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
During the hearing, titled "The U.S. Intellectual Property System and the Impact of Litigation Financed by ...
In Diaz v. United States, No. 23–14 (June 20, 2024), the U.S. Supreme Court, in a dissenting opinion, cited Model Penal Code § 2.02 in arguing that Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b), which prohibited an expert witness from stating an opinion about whether a defendant ...
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